Trump says he’s ordering attorney general to target ‘anti-Christian bias’ with ‘religious liberty’ new task force Trump says his administration will ‘protect Christians’ and protect believers from federal government scrutiny.
“In addition, the task force will work to fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society, and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide,” said Trump, who highlighted the example of Paulette Harlow, an anti-abortion activist who was convicted of conspiracy to violate a federal law prohibiting the blockading of reproductive health facilities.
Speaking at a bipartisan National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington, DC Hilton hotel, Trump said the task force will be ordered to “immediately halt all forms of anti Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government,” including at the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he’s ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to stand up a “task force” to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” within the United States and prosecute instances of “anti-Christian violence and vandalism.”.
He told prayer breakfast attendees that his administration would also work to “protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares” and “bring our country back together as one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.”.
